Scientists Risk Their Lives To Uncover The Mysteries Of The Great White Triangle
Until recently, divers hoping to catch a glimpse of great whites in the wild had to rely on immobile shark cages lowered into the water off the side of a boat.So one professional diver and guide,...
View ArticleThese Ten Shark Species Have The Weirdest Names
Happy Shark Week!In honor of the One True American Holiday (all other holidays are less true, due to lower shark content), I spent about an hour reading about sharks on Wikipedia.Important findings...
View ArticleThis 1970s Documentary Is The Best Shark Movie You've Probably Never Seen
The history of shark movies is littered with some good, some bad and some very ugly films. BeforeSharknado, before Open Water, even before Jaws, there was Blue Water, White Death, which may just be the...
View Article13 Brands That Shamelessly Tweeted About Shark Week
"Shark Week" might be over, but many brands — and not just The Discovery Channel — took advantage of the celebrated TV phenomenon.It's almost impossible for a socially active company to resist...
View ArticleShark Week Is Back And It's Weirder Than Ever [THE BRIEF]
One of the year's best weeks of TV, Shark Week, kicks off soon and to celebrate, the Discovery Channel created this strangely epic 30-second spot. The ad features a man riding on two sharks as he...
View ArticleResearchers Made A Shark-Stalking Robot — Then The Sharks Turned On It
Last November, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Systems Laboratory took an autonomous shark-stalking robot to Guadalupe, Mexico to track and film great white sharks. Two...
View ArticleResearchers Made A Shark-Stalking Robot — Then The Sharks Turned On It
Last November, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Systems Laboratory took an autonomous shark-stalking robot to Guadalupe, Mexico, to track and film great white sharks. Two...
View ArticleDiscovery Is Becoming More And More Ridiculous With Its Fake Documentaries
Despite widespread backlash over fake documentaries, supposedly educational networks are turning to them more and more in efforts to net viewers and in the process are making people dumber.Last year's...
View ArticleWatch a giant great white shark charge a film crew
A film crew in New Zealand had a blood-racing encounter with a great white shark as they were sitting in their inflatable dinghy.They were gathering footage for a documentary called Lair of the...
View ArticleThere's an unstoppable reason for the recent surge in shark attacks
More than half a dozen shark attacks have happened in North Carolina in the last three weeks — nearly as many as happened all of last year.Experts say this summer is brewing up something of a perfect...
View Article10 mind-blowing facts about sharks
This week marks a very important summer holiday observed by many who value exploration and risk-taking in order to triumph over the fear of the unknown.No, I'm not talking about Independence Day in the...
View ArticleAmazing footage of sharks swimming in scalding waters around a volcano is...
Brennan Phillips and some colleagues were recently on an expedition to Kavachi volcano, an active underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. But they weren't prepared for what...
View ArticleShark biologist explains why shark attacks are happening more frequently —...
It’s the summer of the shark. Not only are the toothy creatures breaching our small screens during the 2015 installment of the week-long Discovery Channel series Shark Week, but the gilled animals are...
View ArticleScience says that watching some TV shows can make you a better person
From Netflix to HBO to broadcast networks, we live in the age of too much TV. But maybe all that screen time isn't as bad as we think.A new scientific study found that watching "award-winning TV...
View ArticleThese people spent a night in an underwater Airbnb surrounded by sharks
In late March, Airbnb announced it was raffling off a free night in an exclusive room available one time only: a circular pod submerged in a tank containing 35 sharks.The stunt would take place in...
View ArticleTwo shark attack survivors faced their fears by swimming with sharks
Two men who lost limbs in shark attacks agreed to face their fears and dive back into shark-infested waters. Now, their story will kick off a week of shark-themed programming for Discovery Channel's...
View ArticleShark Week dropped its controversial Megalodon mockumentary — and fans are...
On Sunday, the Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week kicked off — only this year, no controversial mockumentaries on the megalodon shark will be getting any air time.Last year, Discovery Channel's new...
View ArticleWhy punching a shark in the nose is not your best defense
Unlike other animal attacks, if you happen to get attacked by a shark you need to strategically strike back. And punching them in the nose is not necessarily your best defense. Produced by Justin...
View ArticleNobody has ever seen a great white shark sleep until now
Even the terrifying great white shark — the scariest fish in all the seven seas — drifts off to slumberland now and then. But, until recently, nobody had ever seen Jaws sleep.Discovery Channel has...
View ArticleBrave scientists just captured the first sonogram of shark pups wiggling in...
Marine scientists just carried out what may be the bravest obstetrical exam ever, taking a sonogram of a 12.5 foot tiger shark. We first spotted this news over at Popular Science.James Sulikowski, of...
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